Re: [IMPORTANT] OSCON 1 or 2 booths? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [IMPORTANT] OSCON 1 or 2 booths?
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Msg-id 200506071846.j57IksP17755@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [IMPORTANT] OSCON 1 or 2 booths?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:49, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hrmmmm ... I can see the argument for ... and without knowing what the
> > > conference area layout looks like, will the booths be at 'opposite ends'
> > > of the conference floor?  If they are just going to be next to each
> > > other, then it seems redundant ... if you are looking at one at each
> > > 'end' (I realize that there is not necessarily an "end" per se), then
> > > two would make sense ...
> >
> > One will be in the .Org pavilion, one will be in the Commercial
> > Pavilion. I don't know how close they will be but they will not be next
> > to each other.
> >
>
> One issue that comes to mind is that we tend to make noise about being a
> community organization rather than just a piece of a specific corporate
> organization (like most of the other OS DB's)... would it not be odd if
> we had *no* presence in the community Pavilion?  Might it confuse people
> who go looking in the community section for us and can't find any
> presence for postgresql?

We were in the business pavillion at Linux World Boston and it seemed to
go fine.  People don't really make the distinction in a setting like
that.

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